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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  is anything like mine, it's got a pretty simple design. There's a ... things...a little differently. First, some history: the MIT class ring is ... there before my name appears in the Tech in a similar fashion on Tuesday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  learned in person. Videos are one thing, but attending a live performance is ... original spoken word. What impresses me about it is how a person can get into ... Done with our Men?" (Photo taken by Joy Ekuta '13) There is a lot of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  , MIT Natya put on a show called Laasya, which means 'dance' in Sanskrit ... In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... : the first intercollegiate Indian classical dance competition in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for the last time, I put my Brass Rat on facing up. In a couple of hours, I get to turn it around, and that's going to be awesome. Maybe in a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  , while others simply do not." There are a lot of questions in there, but ... is to summarize a student's qualifications within context. We also ... in their caseload. So our job is to look deeper -- what's really going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be ... chemistry, physics, and English in four and a half hours. (oh, and write two ... backpack across Europe in 4 weeks, which is what one of my friends is doing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  It’s a beautiful spring day here at MIT – the sun is peeking through ... athletics facilities for a while now, so I think this is the perfect time to ... , and more that we'll check out later in this tour!   Roberts Field A

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... -parallel) lines define a point. This is a duality! Points and lines are clearly ... shows up everywhere in mathematics. Wikipedia lists a few dozen famous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  eateries and La Verdes convenience store in the Student Center, a three ... learn the intricacies of this way of cooking. Stirfrying is such a simple ... share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  in a house with no utilities, sweltering in the humidity, standing in line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  ; Computer Science (EECS) is everywhere. Each year, EECS prepares hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students to become leaders in diverse career fields ... School of Engineering, MIT EECS consistently is at the top of U.S. News and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  interact with regularly, so this is really only a snapshot of the diverse thoughts and feelings that exist in the MIT bubble. It's a little long but I ... be more free Having a killer final project When my exam score is

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  year now, which, in MIT terms, is a significant amount of time. I ... .36 (Neurobiology of Self) which is a class that focuses on the neural mechanisms of ... separate our physical forms from our thinking forms, if there is even a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  Registration Day, which is always a Monday. Although classes don't start until Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... ! (Note: this is a long list; feel free to skim if your interest wanes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  opted to stay another year in order to finish up and graduate. One day, towards the end of this student's senior year, a small skirmish took place on the dorm's e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  is to work at a design studio in the future, and I was so excited to ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... , flyers, postcards, and everything in between contained. I made a big fun

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  built a special second stadium in addition to the Olympic Stadium, with ... touristy, yeah, but it was great to get the lay of the land in such a huge ... will start beating you. Did you know that Haagen Dazs is a made-up word

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty ... religious ceremonies, different in that the population of the former is ... a mild indifference, which is more or less how I’ve started out most

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  of year. the sky is blue in a way that always makes me sad. why must ... know why fall is a noun too. I have not been back in two years and Fall ... nature’s own canvas, but it is a sad fact that you must accept. To do well

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in ... forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case ... ) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014